Family Fulgoridae

Subfamily Poiocerinae

Tribe Poiocerini Haupt, 1929

Subtribe Poiocerina Haupt, 1929

Genus Itzalana Distant, 1905

Type species (in original combination):  Itzalana formosa Distant, 1905.

Synonyms: None.

Distribution: Mostly Central America (but reaches Texas).

Recognized species

This genus has 3 species, 1 of which gets into extreme southern U.S.

Itzalana formosa Distant, 1905 - Mexico (Yucatan)
Itzalana rubescens Lallemand, 1956 - Mexico (Oaxaca as Salina Cruz)
Itzalana submaculata Schmidt, 1905 - USA: TX; Mexico (Chiapas, Morelos, San Luis Potosí); Honduras, Nicaragua, Surinam

Economic Importance:

Limited.

Known host plants: 

Itzalana submaculata - Baccharis (Asteraceae) (most collections either Sept.-Oct or late May).

Host from Wilson & O'Brien (1986) and Wilson et al. (1994); plant names from USDA PLANTS or Tropicos.

Recognition:

Body distinctly short and broad; head not strongly produced, with eyes wider than pronotum; frons shorter than length of frontoclypeal suture, dorsal margin at least 2x length frontoclypeal suture.

Itzalana submaculata (photographs by Kimberley Shropshire, University of Delaware).

This genus is here on bugguide.

Collecting

Inspection of Baccharis in May or Oct-Sept. in Texas or south.

Molecular resources: As of this writing, there is no molecular data for this genus on Genbank or Barcode of Life.

Selected references:

Distant W. L. 1905. Cicadidae and Fulgoridae. Biologia Centrali-Americana 1: 140-146.

Lallemand, V. 1956. Contribution à l'étude des Fulgoridae (Hemiptera) (1re note). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique XXXII(39): 1-7.

Metcalf, Z. P. 1947. General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle IV Fulgoroidea. Part 9 Fulgoridae. Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts.

O'Brien, L. B. 1985. New synonymies and combinations in New World Fulgoroidea (Achilidae, Delphacidae, Flatidae, Fulgoridae: Homoptera). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 78(5): 657-662.

Wilson, S. W. and L. B. O'Brien. 1986. Descriptions of nymphs of Itzalana submaculata Schmidt (Homoptera: Fulgoridae), a species new to the United States. Great Lakes Entomologist 19(2): 101 105.

Wilson, S. W., C. Mitter, R. F. Denno, and M. R. Wilson. 1994. Evolutionary patterns of host plant use by delphacid planthoppers and their relatives. In: R. F. Denno and T. J. Perfect, (eds.). Planthoppers: Their Ecology and Management. Chapman and Hall, New York. Pp. 7-45 & Appendix.